Sharon G. Flake (born December 25, 1955) is an American writer of children and young adult literature who lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

As a teenager, she attended Simon Gratz High School, where she was a member of the tennis team and the honor society.

Flake earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1978, majoring in English Writing and minoring in Political Science.

Immediately after graduating she took a job as a house parent in a Pittsburgh area youth shelter.

Her first novel, The Skin I'm In, was published in 1998 under the new Jump at the Sun imprint of Disney's, launched about September 1998 to produce "children's books with an African-American emphasis".